I want to present you this type of mushrooms. This is part od huge culinary business.
A truffle is the fruiting body of an underground mushroom; spore dispersal is accomplished through fungivores, animals that eat fungi. Almost all truffles are ectomycorrhizal and are therefore usually found in close association with trees like oak, hazel, hornbeam, beech, linden, poplar, cedar, black pine, etc.
There are hundreds of species of truffles, but the fruiting body of some (mostly in the genus Tuber) are highly prized as a food. (kilogram price in europe it can be 1000 eur to 2000 eur for black truffle and from 2000 eur to 4000 eur for white truffle).The 18th-century French gastronome Brillat-Savarin called these truffles "the diamond of the kitchen". Edible truffles are held in high esteem in French, Spanish, northern Italian and Greek cooking, as well as in international haute cuisine.
Extraction
Looking for truffles in open ground is almost always carried out with specially trained pigs (truffle hogs) or, more recently, dogs. The Lagotto Romagnolo is currently the only breed recognized for sniffing out truffles (although virtually any breed could be trained for this use).
Types
- White truffle
- Black truffle
- Chinese truffles
- Summer or burgundy truffle
- Other species
- Truffle-like species
Pictures
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| Black truffle |
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| Clean white truffle |
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| Summer truffle |
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| Chinesse truffle |
Source: wikipedia.org
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